"And they are one foot over the line in the sand away from waking up the monster that is the second amendment. They can use pens and paper all they want. That's what the English did. How did that work out for them?"
But the strategy to disarm us will never be a full scale banning, it will be creeping incrementalism, tactics that erode our rights over time, like we are seeing now, its a suffocation approach and they will use every Newtown in the future (and there will be more) to beat us down.
I believe the key will be the reaction by the police and the military, but in command and control organizations, it is unlikely that a large number of oficers AT ONE TIME will say no more.
Could you imagine if NY State LEO's today said NO, we are not enforcing these laws and there was a statewide strike, this is called an informational cascade, and a tipping point, but we are not there yet.
How we get there I do not know, perhaps bloodshed, perhaps it happens through an unrelated shock, such as an economic crisis.
Either way, the battl right now is being fought in the media, via the perception that one side is winning vis-a-vis the other.
The only way we win is if we win the battle for control of the message and control of the Preference Cascade, which is the how and why behind the collapse of all tyranical endeavors:
Such regimes have little legitimacy, but they spend a lot of effort making sure that citizens don’t realize the extent to which their fellow-citizens dislike the regime. If the secret police and the censors are doing their job, 99% of the populace can hate the regime and be ready to revolt against it – but no revolt will occur because no one realizes that everyone else feels the same way.
This works until something breaks the spell, and the discontented realize that their feelings are widely shared, at which point the collapse of the regime may seem very sudden to outside observers – or even to the citizens themselves. Claims after the fact that many people who seemed like loyal apparatchiks really loathed the regime are often self-serving, of course. But they’re also often true: Even if one loathes the regime, few people have the force of will to stage one-man revolutions, and when preferences are sufficiently falsified, each dissident may feel that he or she is the only one, or at least part of a minority too small to make any difference.
To counter this the tyrants rely on Alinsky's rule #12
RULE 12: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions
